Quotes About Ordinary

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.

I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

For reasons I couldn't begin to guess at, a balustrade along the roofline had been adorned with life-sized statues of ordinary men, women and children. Goodness knows what this is meant to suggest – I suppose that this is some sort of Hall of the People – but the effect is that it looks as if two dozen citizens of various ages are about to commit mass suicide.

that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

His point, of course, is that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful. So

I was beginning to appreciate that the central feature of life on the Appalachian Trail is deprivation, that the whole point of the experience is to remove yourself so thoroughly from the conveniences of everyday life that the most ordinary things -- processed cheese, a can of pop gorgeously beaded with condensation -- fill you with wonder and gratitude.

That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things.

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside...

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

91] Cause and effect. One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

The ordinary life of men is like that of saints. They all seek satisfaction, and differ only according to the object in which they locate it.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.